Pakistan I-Day: No sweets exchanged by BSF, Rangers

There was no exchange of sweets between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers at the international border here on the occasion of Pakistan’s Independence Day on Friday.

With tensions between India and Pakistan over recent terror attacks in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, officials of BSF and Pakistan Rangers didn’t follow the tradition of offering sweets to one another.

“No sweets were offered by either side,” a BSF officer said here. Both sides, at a meeting of the border commandants this week, had decided not to exchange sweets.

Pakistan’s Independence Day falls on August 14 and India’s a day later.

The tradition of exchanging sweets on select occasions was broken on the occasion of Eid in October last year.